The surveyor Thomas Gedge arrived at the manor of Winslow on 20 March 1556. It may have been an ominous day for local people – he was probably there to
maximise revenue for the Crown – but 450 years later his survey provides a unique panorama of life in a 16th-century Buckinghamshire town.

The manor of Winslow had come into royal ownership with the dissolution of St Albans Abbey by Henry VIII. It had a resident bailiff – but an absentee
landlord who owed the Crown money.

This book reveals Winslow in 1556: its people, its properties, their occupations, their families and relationships, their petty crimes and long-term feuds.

160 pages, paperback.
Published by Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society in May 2013.
ISBN 978-0-9558158-7-4